Ministering the Holy Spirit

The word "Spirit" is used in two senses: one, it
describes God in His invisible, immaterial form. God, the Holy
Spirit, was made visible in the form of Jesus.

In another sense, the Holy Spirit to us is "the
Mind of Christ" (1 Cor 2.). We simply have no way of understanding
pure Spirit, else God would not have moved into the physical realm to
supply Spirit. Ministering the holy spirit is through the word of
Christ the Spirit.

And thou shalt
speak unto all that are wise hearted, whom I have filled with the
spirit of wisdom, that they may make Aarons garments to consecrate
him, that he may minister unto me in the priests office. Ex.28:3

However, the Israelites were
given The Book of the Covenant or a covenant of Grace. They turned
back to the musical idolatry of the Egyptian trinity and God TURNED
THEM OVER to worship the starry host (Acts 7 etc.). They would not
receive the MINISTERY OF THE SPIRIT until they turned ot God in
Baptism and received A holy spirit.

HOW IS THE SPIRIT MINISTERED: Who
also hath made us able
ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the
spirit: for the letter
killeth, but the
spirit
giveth
life.
2Co.3:6

THE
LAW:But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was
glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold
the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was
to be done away: 2 Cor. 3:7

THE FAITH, THE GOSPEL, THE
SPIRIT: How shall not
the ministration of the
spirit be rather
glorious? 2 Cor. 3:8

For if the ministration of
condemnation be glory,
much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory. 2 Cor. 3:9
For even that which was made
glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that
excelleth. 2 Cor. 3:10
For if that which is done away
was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. 2 Cor.
3:11
Seeing then that we have such
hope, we use great plainness of speech: 2 Cor. 3:12
And not as Moses, which put a
vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of
that which is abolished: 2 Cor. 3:13

But their minds were
blinded: for until this
day remaineth .........the same vail untaken away.........in the reading
of the old testament;.........which vail is done away in Christ. 2
Cor. 3:14

But even unto this day, when
Moses is
read, the
vail is upon their
heart. 2 Cor. 3:15
Nevertheless, when it
shall turn to the
Lord, the vail shall be
taken away. 2 Cor. 3:16
Now the Lord IS that Spirit: and where the Spirit OF the Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Cor. 3:17 But we all, with open face
beholding as in a glass
the glory of the Lord,
are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by
the Spirit of the
Lord. 2 Cor. 3:18

The Holy Spirit (Mind of Christ) is to the true
Being of God what our mind or spirit is to us (1 Cor. 2). Because our
bodies will die and decay, our only true self is the spirit which God
put into everyone.

Jesus reveals His Mind or Spirit to us through
His Words
which He said were Spirit and Life (John 6:63).

Our spirit is A holy spirit only to the extent
that the Mind of Christ occupies our thoughts and actions.

Because no human can "minister" or "supply" the
Spirit by physically manhandling a "person" to place "Him" in our
bodies, Paul ministered the Spirit by preaching the full gospel or
"everything which pertains to life and Godliness" in our
lives.

For instance, The Bible
personifies THOUGHT, Truth and Spirit:

For the
(1) WORD
(Dabar=Logos=Spirit of Christ) of the (2) Lord (Jehovah) is right; and all his works are done in TRUTH. Psa 33:4

By the
WORD of the Lord were the heavens
made; and all the host of them by the
(3)
BREATH (Spirit) of
his
MOUTH. Psa 33:6

Mouth: Peh
(h6310) peh; from 6284; the mouth (as the means of blowing)

Breath is SPIRIT: Ruwach
(h7307) roo'-akh, roo'-akh; from 7306; wind; by resemblance breath...
by resemblance SPIRIT, but only of a rationalbeing
(includ. its EXPRESSION and FUNCTIONS)

Therefore, God is inistering
the holy spirit is through the word of Christ the Spirit.

God, through Zechariah, shows how people so
damage their spirits to such an extent that they no longer belong to
God. Therefore, as He did the nation of Israel, He allowed them to
walk in their own ways and worship like the nations.

But they refused to
hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears,
that they should not hear. Zechariah 7:11

They made their
hearts as hard as flint and would not listen to the law or to the
words that the LORD Almighty had
sentby his
Spiritthrough
the earlier
prophets. So the LORD
Almighty was very angry. Zechariah 7:12

Therefore it is come to pass,
that

as he cried, and they
would not hear;
so they
cried, and
I would not hear,
saith the Lord of
hosts: Zechariah 7:13

In Matthew 13 Jesus spoke parables to of the
multitudes to keep them from even hearing the word. When they do not
hear then God quits speaking to them. In this sense He "hardens"
their heart. Stated in another way, when people reject God and He
lets them go by His permissive will He is said to have hardened their
hearts.

This was repeated as the Jews killed Jesus and
Stephen. Stephen was not gentle when he lashed out at the clergy who
took away the key to knowledge and would murder you if you threatened
their jobs:

Ye stiffnecked and
uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Acts 7:51

Which of the
prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them
which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have
been now the betrayers and murderers: Acts 7:52

Who have received the law by the disposition of angels, and have
not kept it. Acts 7:53

To resist or quench the spirit is to refuse to
listen to God's words which are Spirit.

The prophets with the power of the Spirit or
Mind of Christ were ministering the Spirit through the Word. Peter
says that they were--

Searching what, or
what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified
beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should
follow. 1 Peter 1:11

We noted that God Who is pure or Holy Spirit
can also have a Spirit of or mental disposition
of Himself:

Who also hath made
us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter [Law], but
of the spirit:
for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. 2 Cor 3:6

But if the ministration of death, written and
engraven in stones, was
glo rious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold
the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was
to be done away: 2 Cor 3:7

How shall not the
ministration of the
spirit be rather
glorious? 2 Cor 3:8

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the
Lord is, there is liberty. 2 Corinthians 3:17

And I fell at his feet to
worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy
fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God: for the testimony of
Jesus is the spirit of
prophecy. Rev 19:10

Therefore, the Spirit God and the Spirit of God
are not two people. Again, ministering the holy spirit is through the
word of Christ the Spirit.

Spirit Without
Measure and the Word

Later, when God was clothed in the body of Jesus Christ,
He spoke His words fully because He was not giving His words as
Spirit in a limited sense. He "fully preached" everything which
belongs to mankind and it is totaly capable of supplying us with food
for a lifetime.

For he
whom God hath sent
speaketh the words
of God:forGod giveth
not the Spirit
by measure unto him. John 3:34

To speak the words fully was to give the Spirit
fully. Jesus confirmed this by saying, and we again quote:

It is the spirit
that quickeneth; the
flesh
profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto
you, they are spirit, and they are
life. Jn 6:63

The Experiencing God personally movement sees
Jesus as a "sample" demonstration of how God can and will reveal a
tailor-made assignment to everyone who goes through the 12-step
mind-control program. In other later-rain movements Christ is
minimized by insisting that He did not complete His "now but not yet
kingdom." He is slandered by being accused of putting the gospel and
kingdom as fermenting wine into a wineskin of our making. As it
evolves we must throw away the old skin and get another one.

However, Jesus was not a "god like me with
God's help." He was the One and Only God Incarnate of the universe.
Or else He was confused because He said:

Believest thou not
that I am in the
Father, and the Father in me?
......... the words that I speak unto you
I speak not of
myself:......... but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works. John 14:10

So, we don't have Jesus having the full "Spirit
person" living within while we just have "parts" of the literal
Spirit person living within: God "giveth the Spirit without measure"
when God Who "sent Jesus caused Him to speak the Words of God" and
not the words of a human prson.

Jesus said "the body counts for nothing." He
meant that the Father or Spirit or full Deity (Col. 2:9) dwelled in
Him. Therefore, the Spirit gave the words directly from the Father
and not from the flesh or human nature. Therefore, when Jesus spoke
it was God speaking; to resist those words and try to replace them in
song and sermon is to denounce God by resisting His Word or quenching
His Spirit.

Jesus answered and
said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father
will love him, and we will
come unto him, and make our abode with him. John 14:23

He that loveth me
not keepeth not
my sayings: and the
word which ye hear is not mine,
but the Fathers
which sent
me. John 14:24

To keep means "to guard from
loss or injury." God as the WE live within the human heart or spirit
to the extent that people live by His Words which are Spirit and
Life.

Using the name "WORD" to describe God working
in the physical world shows that God's power is in His Words: He
spoke and it came forth. If His Words had real power then writing
them in a book does not diminish the words. However, only those who
love those words are not sent strong delusions that they believe a
lie and are damned.

Do you know people who cannot comprehend the
simpliest Scriptural truth?

The Spirit which Jesus had upon Himself was not
a "person." Rather, it was the Spirit without limit, the Knowledge
God has of Himself now poured out into the hearts of obedient
believers:

AND there shall
come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow
out of his roots: Isa 11:1

And the
spirit (7307) of the
Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of
counsel and might, the spirit of
knowledge and of the fear of the
Lord; Isaiah 11:2

And shall make him
of quick
understanding in the
fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes,
neither reprove after the hearing of his ears: Isa 11:3

Turn you at my reproof: behold, ......... I will pour out myspirit
unto you, ......... I will make known my words unto you. Proverbs 1:23

Don't lose sight of the fact that Jesus said
the same thing -- and we cannot repeat it too often:

It is the spirit
that quickeneth; the
flesh
profiteth nothing:
the words that I speak unto
you, they are spirit, and they are
life. Jn 6:63

After His resurrection, Christ as Spirit
appeared to Paul to make Him a minister
of the Spirit by preaching the gospel.

And my speech and
my preaching was not with enticing words of mans wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power:
1 Cor 2:4

That your faith
should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. 1 Cor 2:5

Paul, has said that the Mind of Christ is the
Holy Spirit. Now, he says that the words which he speaks are Spirit
and Life if we honor them as being more than ink on paper:

Who also hath made
us able ministers of the new testament (contract); not of the letter,
but of the spirit:
for the letter
killeth, but the
spirit giveth
life. 2
Corinthians 3:6

We can eat, swallow and digest
the paper and ink and we will not be more spiritual. However, if we
make it our life's work to read, understand and try to apply Spirit
words then we wil have Spirit and Life.

To the Romans, Paul makes the
Spirit to spirit connection by showing that his internal service or
ministering was from his spirit because he body was always weak. His
spirit passed on Spirit power through preaching the gospel:

For God is my
witness, whom I serve
with my spirit in the
gospel of his
Son, that
without
ceasing I make mention
of you always in my prayers; Romans 1:9

We have an altar,
whereof they have no right to eat which serve the tabernacle. Heb.13:10

For the bodies of those beasts,
whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin,
are burned without the camp. Heb 13:11

Jesus told the woman at the
well that God only SEEKS those who can worship Him in the new PLACE
of the spirit as it listens to His Spirit in the Word. Therefore,
Paul understood that to mean HIS spirit:

For we are the circumcision,
which worship
God in the
spirit, and rejoice in
Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Ph.3:3

This is the same
worship: Latreuo
(g3000)

It is arrogant to try to "pare down" the APPLE
of Christ's words to arrive at a CORE of two or three facts. Jesus
said that every word which He spoke to them were Spirit and Life. How
can you ignore anything Jesus taught and still teach the good news?
To pare off these words is to pare of God's presence.

Ministering the Holy
Spirit To The Galatians

To the Galatians, Paul shows that receiving the Spirit is
not by external works (singing, dancing, chanting, pleading for God
to save you), but by hearing and believing the message of and about
Christ:

This only would I learn of you,
......... Received ye the Spirit
by the works of the law, ......... or (Received ye the Spirit)by the
hearing of faith? Galatians 3:2

Paul MINISTERED the Spirit
through preaching: they received the Spirit by listening. Therefore,
Paul was not ministering a THIRD PERSON.
Luther in Law and Gospel wrote:

"But Paul says that
the Spirit,
through his preaching, has wrought in the hearts of his Corinthians, to
the end that Christ
lives and is mighty in
them. After such statement he bursts into praise of the ministerial
office, comparing the message, or preaching, of Moses with that of
himself and the apostles. He says:

"Such
confidence have we through Christ to Godward: not that we are
sufficient of ourselves, to account anything as from ourselves; but
our sufficiency is from God.

8. These words are
blows and thrusts for the false apostles [PAGE 227] and preachers. Paul is mortal enemy to the blockheads who make great boast,

pretending to what they do not possess and to what they cannot
do;who boast of having the Spirit in great measure; who are ready to counsel and aid the whole world;

who pride themselves on the ability to invent something new. It is to be a surpassingly precious
and heavenly thing they are to spin out of their heads, as the dreams of pope
and monks
have been in time past.

"We do not so," says Paul. "We
rely not upon ourselves or our wisdom and ability. We preach not what we have ourselves invented. But this is our
boast and trust in Christ before God,

that we have made
of you a divine epistle; have written upon your
hearts,not our thoughts,
but the Word of God.

We are not, however, glorifying
our own power, but the works and the power of him who has called and equipped us for such an office;
from whom proceeds all you have heard and believed.

9. It is a glory which every
preacher may claim, to be able to say with full confidence of
heart:........... "This trust have I toward God in Christ,
that what I teach and
preach is truly the
Word of
God."

There is a role for PROFESSORS
and Rhetoricians and Sophists but we quoted Luther above to say that
it WAS NOT of ANY value in the spiritual realm: that is why Jesus
repudiated the Doctors of the Law who might go and make a living in
Canon Law:

In short, let him
who would be
wise, who would boast
of great skill,
talents and power,
confine himself to things other than
spiritual;

Whatever we RECEIVE as a result of THE HEARING
OF FAITH is the SPIRIT. This is the Holy Spirit or the Mind of Christ
(1 Cor 2).

No one ever received the Spirit as a
supernatural power of incarnation simply by hearing with faith.
Therefore, when they heard the inspired Word they were receiving the
Spirit which is the Words and Mind of Christ.

Let's run through that again. First, remember that Jesus
said of "spirit"

It is the
spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing:

the
words that I speak unto you, they are spirit,
and they are life.
John 6:63

Second, when the Galatians heard with faith they
were receiving the spirit or mind of Christ.

The Ephesian Colossian
Parallel. We MINISTER the Spirit by letting the Word of Christ dwell in us richly and
the SPEAKING that word one to another. The SPIRIT is never said to be
ministered or dispensed by music:

EPHESIANS
5:17-20KJV

COLOSSIANS
3:16-17

Wherefore be ye not unwise, but
understanding what the will of the Lord is. Eph 5:17

And be not
drunk with
wine, wherein
is excess; but be filled with the Spirit; Eph 5:18

Let the word of Christdwell in you richly in all wisdom; (John 6:63
Words = Spirit)

Speaking
(preaching) to
yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,

teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and
hymns and spiritual songs,

singing and making melody
in your
heart to the
Lord;

singing with grace in your
hearts to the
Lord.

always giving thanks to God the
Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name
(authority) of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the
Father by him.

The Mind of Christ is the Spirit of God
(1 Cor. 3) and we hear and understand the Spirit by hearing the Words
of Christ Who is the Spirit and full Deity (Colossians 2:9)

The Spirit is received here just by hearing and
believing. In Acts 2:38 we are led to believe that the gift of the
Spirit comes after repentance and baptism which comes after belief.
Therefore, Paul is clearly saying that the "Spirit" is in earthen
vessels or the words of the Apostles. Spirit is delivered by teaching
and discoursing the Words Christ gave to them as Spirit and Life.
This process continues as long as we give heed to the words of
Christ. Obeying all that Jesus commanded therefore is "hearing of
faith." The "Spirit" is passed on by preaching that "Jesus is set
forth as crucified."

From Romans 7 and 8 it is clear that their
conflict was between the Mosaic Law and the Words of Christ which are
Spirit and Life. On a personal level, the contest is between the
personal flesh and the personal spirit. Therefore, Paul would use the
same terms to the Galatians. Because there was not spirit and
Spirit
distinction in the text, I have removed the upper case which is
inserted as human commentary. He asks:

Are ye so foolish?
......... having begun
in the spirit
(mind),......... are ye now made perfect by the
flesh? Galatians 3:3......... Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.
Galatians 3:4

The SPIRIT is contrasted with the FLESH. That
is OUR SPIRIT is where we live if we are baptized believers
understanding what we were REQUESTING.

God lives in the heart, mind or spirit (the
inner man) by faith. When our spirit conforms to God's Spirit (the
Mind of Christ) then we do not try to become perfect with acts of the
flesh. All ritualism is legalism because it seeks to make spiritual
changes with assaults upon the flesh.

Again, the contest is not between the Galatians
"flesh" and the Holy Spirit; it is between their carnal nature and
their enlightened spirit or mind.

In the Greek CHORUS into which the Jews tried
to lead Jesus was the Dionysus choral dance. The CHOREGEO organized
the TEAM to dance in a sexual, often perverted way. Zeus and Dionysus
had been worshipped in the Temple in Jerusalem while the Greeks ruled
there. The performed their sacrifices right into the Most Holy
places. The imagry of JUDAS is that of being such a flute player
dancer.

Now he that
ministereth
seed to the sower both
minister
bread for your
food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits
of your righteousness;) 2 Cor 9:10

If any man speak, let him
speak as the oracles of God; if any man minister, let him do it as of the ability which God giveth:

that
God in all things may be glorified through Jesus
Christ, to whom be
praise and dominion for ever and ever. Amen. 1 Pet 4:11

Paul ministered the Spirit by preaching the
gospel: ......... the people received the
Spirit by hearing.

What has taken
place?

Simple
conversation but no laying on of hands
to receive a special gift of the Holy Spirit which
is the gift of Christ.

For our gospel came not unto
you in word only, but also in power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in
much assurance; as ye know what manner of men we were among you for
your sake. 1 Th 1:5

So, Jesus said that Spirit or His Mind is bound
up in the Words which He spoke; Paul ministered that Spirit by
teaching the Word; and people received the Spirit by listening to the
Word. You cannot transfer a third member of the God "family" by
pushing Hin into the head; you transfer Spirit by transferring
Word.

In another account, Paul ministered by
ministering the gospel:

That I should be
the minister of Jesus
Christ to the Gentiles,
ministering the gospel
of God,

that the
offering
up of the Gentiles
might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:16

The Gentiles might accept the gospel of Christ
and OFFER UP acceptable worship because they are SANCTIFIED by having
a NEW SPIRIT which is neither Jewish nor Gentile:

Jesus, who said that His Words were Spirit
and Life also said that the TRUTH in the WORD sanctifies:

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. John 17:17

John had heard
Jesus also say:

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John 6:63

Because Paul was taught by
the Spirit Lord Who said "I am Jesus of Nazareth" he fully knew the
Spirit- Word connection:

And now, brethren, I commend
you to God, and to the word of his grace,

which is able to
build you
up, and to give you an
inheritance among all them which are sanctified. Ac. 20:32

The Word of God helps to
INCREACE grace and peace:

SIMON Peter, a servant and an
apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness
of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ: 2 Pet 1:1

Grace
and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord, 2 Pet 1:2

Paul did not hand-feed the Holy Spirit as a
"person" to the Galatians. Ministered means:

Now he that
ministereth
seed to the sower both
minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and
increase the fruits of your righteousness;)
2Co.9:10

He therefore that
ministereth to you the
Spirit, and worketh
miracles among you, doeth he it by the works of the law, or by the
hearing of
faith? Ga.3:5

And not holding the Head, from
which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the
increase of God. Col.2:19

And beside this, giving all
diligence, add to
your faith virtue; and to virtue, knowledge; 2Pe.1:5

For so an entrance shall be
ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of
our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2Pe.1:11

Unto whom it was revealed, that
not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them

that have
preached the
gospel unto you with
the Holy
Ghost sent down from
heaven; which
things the angels
desire to look into. 1 Peter 1: 12

And I fell at his feet to
worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy
fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus:
worship
God: f

or the testimony of
Jesus is the spirit of
prophecy. Rev 19:10

The Spirit which incarnated the man Jesus, was
the Word which in the beginning was God. As that Spirit in the
visible manifestation of the work of the invisible, Spirit Deity, He
appeared as the pillar of fire, the Rock, the Water, the Manna and in
may other "outreaches" of God into the physical dimension in which we
live.

Searching what, or
what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when

it
testified
beforehand the
sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow. 1 Peter 1:11

Unto whom it was revealed, that
not unto themselves, but unto us

they did
minister the things,......which are now reported unto you by them that

have preached the gospel unto you...... with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven;...... which things the angels desire to look
into. 1 Peter 1:12

But God hath revealed them unto
us by hisSpirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. 1 Cor. 2:10

For what man...... knoweth the things of a man,...... ...... save the spirit of man which is in
him?...... even so the things of God knoweth no
man,...... ...... but the Spirit of God. 1 Cor.
2:11

Now we have received, not the
spirit
of the world, but the
spirit whichis of God; that we might know the things that are freely
given to us of God. 1
Cor. 2:12

Which things also we speak, not
in the words which mans wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost
teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 1 Cor.
2:13

But the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto
him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually
discerned. 1 Cor. 2:14

But he that is spiritual
judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man. 1 Cor.
2:15

For who hath known
the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
1 Cor. 2:16

Therefore, ministering the Spirit of Christ
ministered that which had been preached with the Holy Ghost. Not with
the power of the Holy Ghost as a person but with the Holy Ghost. But
what was the Spirit of Christ which they ministered through preaching
the gospel with the Spirit? Remember that this spirit was not a
little person but the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven was:

And the
spirit (7307) of the
Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of
wisdom and understanding, the spirit of
counsel and might, the spirit of
knowledge and of the fear of the
Lord; Isaiah 11:2

It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh
profiteth nothing:

the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
John 6:63

This SPIRIT OF supernatural knowledge is
MINISTERED through preaching. Those who have faith and want to become
members of Christ's TEAM must be baptized.

This I say then,
Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the
flesh. Gal 5:16

"Throughout the rest of the
chapter 'spirit' and 'flesh'
are contrasted, the new and
the old nature. We see their antagonism...
Rendal says that through out this section Paul has in mind 'spirit'
and not 'Spirit'; Lightfoot says it in regard
to v. 17...

"The analogy of
Scripture shows that we
never use the Spiritas a
means, but
we do so use our own
'spirit.'

"So Paul here bids the
Galatians to use in their walk and conversation what is spirit in its
nature, i. e., the reborn,
new man... 'Flesh' and the ''Holy Spirit' are
not a contrast, but 'flesh' and 'spirit' are." (Lenski, Gal.
5:16)

Renewing the spirit is
renewing the mind:

And be
renewed in the spirit(mental disposition)
of your mind; Ep.4:23

And be not conformed to this
world: but ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and
acceptable, and perfect will of God. Ro.12:2

And you, that were sometime
alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled
Col.1:21

By becoming a disciple Christ gives us a NEW
SPIRIT or a NEW MAN to live inside. Because we are SANCTIFIED by the
blood of Christ we can come boldly into the presence of God. This is
in the spirit or mind as the only PLACE where we can worship God
spirit to Spirit.